Index / Search / Convallaria majalis
§1 Plant
Convallaria majalis L.
vernacular European lily of the valley — species · Liliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Liliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Convallaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 169 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- container, bulb, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 169 counties across 21 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cayuga 36011
- Clinton 36019
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 15 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/COMA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7459480 ↗Record version
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